Talk:Double Writing (Petty)

first draft 2018-01

This is part of a running project that I call "The Petty Project", and in which I try to create a comprehensive bibliography of William Petty.

to do

• interesting text: W. Poole (….) - Seventeenth-Century ‘Double Writing’ Schemes, and a 1676 Letter in the Phonetic Script and Real Character of John Wilkins. See:

https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:5a6ad031-a339-4391-a1e8-9ee79276975d

Poole places the Double Writing instrument of Petty in the context of a broader interest in building devices for double writing in the 17th century, especially in the 1650s.

The article (?) claims to unravel the complex history of proposals for such instruments for the first time.

William Poole (2018?) about John Wilkins: OCLC 1013574010 (at KB)

and about John Aubrey: OCLC 457149376 (id.)

William Poole (D.Phil., Oxford, 2001) is Fellow and Tutor in English at New College, Oxford. He has published on many bibliographical and historical topics in early modern Britain, including the history of science.

see:https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=22523274583

and: http://www.new.ox.ac.uk/william-poole

• relation with same kind of instrument, invented by Christopher Wren: see e.g. Davies, C.S.L. (2008) – The Youth and Education of Christopher Wren in English Historical Review, April 2008, Vol. 123, Issue 501, p. 300-327; see p. 315
• On Petty's double-writing instrument: "an invention for which he made extravagant claims, but which was soon lost sight of, once it had impressed his patrons." (p. 217)

Charles Webster – Benjamin Worsley: engineering for universal reform from the Invisible College to the Navigation Act. In: Mark Greengrass; Michael Leslie; Timothy Raylor (2002) - Samuel Hartlib and universal reformation : studies in intellectual communication.

OCLC 1004602333 https://books.google.nl/books?id=GXYEqXxjGlwC. pp. 213-236

Dit hele boek is zeer de moeite. In KB.

But….. my next book on the list is Proceedings between Sankey and Petty (1659).

--Dick Bos (talk) 16:10, 21 January 2018 (UTC)